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Home / Riverside 2015

HIV Disclosure Comics

Aug. 26, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) is a longitudinal cohort study investigating the long-term effects of HIV infection and ARV (antiretroviral) medications in children and young adults who were born with HIV or born exposed to HIV. The study follows newborns, young children, adolescents, and young adults. One part of the study, the use of a comic for maternal disclosure of HIV status, is discussed in this podcast. Researcher Claire Berman presented this study, and the comics related to it, at our 2015 conference in Riverside, California and on a Health Comics panel at San Diego ComicCon. Click below to play… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Health Education, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Research, Riverside 2015, San Diego ComicCon Tags: AIDS, educational comics, HIV, research

Embroidered Cancer Comic

Apr. 27, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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Canadian Sima Elizabeth Shefrin is a fabric artist and presenter from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference. Her recently published book, Embroidered Cancer Comics, is a  series of embroidered panels about her husband’s diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. It was recently published by Jessica Kingsley. To get a copy of Embroidered Cancer Comic, visit the book’s Facebook page. In my “What Are You Reading?!” segment, I’m joined by The Bad Doctor himself, Ian Williams. He shares three titles he’s been reading recently. Listen to the episode to find out what they are! Support for this podcast comes from the Department of… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Dundee 2016, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015, Uncategorized

New Podcast: Elizabeth Hewitt & Ann Fox

Mar. 24, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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In this week’s podcast, Elizabeth Hewitt from the Ohio State University presents “Incurable Time: The Graphic Temporalities of Autoimmune Disease.” Her talk was recorded at our 2015 Riverside Comics & Medicine conference. Also, I talk with Ann Fox of Davidson College about what she’s reading, as well as her new Graphic Medicine course. Keep your eyes on your screens as images will accompany the episode. This podcast is also available via iTunes. Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department within a medical school, pioneers of innovations in medical education… Read More

Categories: comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Health Education, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015 Tags: cancer, Crohn's disease, Lupus, Parkinson's Disease

New Podcast: AIDS Memoirs and Sarah Leavitt

Mar. 8, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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In this episode, we feature Jordana Greenblatt’s presentation from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference, titled “Internal and External Spaces of Threat and Dissolution: HIV/AIDS Graphic Memoir.” This presentation was part of the “Comics as Performance” panel in Riverside.  We will be hearing much more in the coming year about comics as performance as our 2016 Dundee conference theme expands on this area of thought and scholarship. In addition to the video below, you can subscribe to the Graphic Medicine podcast in iTunes here. And in our “What Are You Reading?!” segment, Tangles creator Sarah Leavitt talks with MK about… Read More

Categories: animation, comics, Comics and Medicine, Graphic Novels, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015 Tags: AIDS, grieving, HIV, Jordana Greenblatt, loss, memoir comics, Sarah Leavitt

Podcast Episode 13: Meaning Making Through Drawing and Comics

Feb. 7, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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In this week’s Graphic Medicine podcast, the first in a series, we’ll hear two lightning presentations from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside, California. Both presentations discuss how making art and comics helps create meaning and understanding, and can, in some cases, change behavior. You can listen to an image-enhanced version of the podcast here: Or you can find the episode in iTunes here. First we’ll hear from Roderick Castle, an art therapist in Rochester, New York, who works with veterans. You can learn more about Roderick from his feature in this month’s “Art Therapy Today”, published by the… Read More

Categories: Bioethics, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, drawing, Graphic Novels, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015 Tags: art, art therapy, DARPA, PTSD, trauma, trauma informed care, Una, Unbecoming, veterans, war, war comics

Leah Eisenberg and Visualizing Biobanking

Jan. 24, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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This week on the graphic medicine podcast, Leah Eisenberg talks about her work as a lawyer and bioethicist using comics to help make biobanking more comprehensible, and consent to bio banking more meaningful. In the “What Are You Reading?!” segment, Leah updates us on her comics & medicine work and recommends a few books she’s enjoyed recently.   Leah recommends the March series about John Lewis, Neurocomic, and the work of Tyler Page, and S/Z, about communicating ideas with storytelling.   Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Education, Medical Humanities, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015 Tags: biobank, bioethics, consent, legal, Mayo Clinic, University of Arkansas

Podcast Episode 11: Nye Wright

Jan. 18, 2016 by Comic Nurse

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On this week’s episode, I talk with Nye Wright, creator of Things To Do In A Retirement Home Trailer Park When You Are 29 and Unemployed which was recently released in North America by Penn State University Press. Nye discusses what he’s been reading, how he created Trailer Park, his next book project, and his Twitter meet-up which happens this week. You can listen to an image-enhanced version of the podcast here: Or you can find the episode in iTunes here.   Nye recommends four books in our conversation. First is the graphic novel  “TheDivine.” Second is “The Incal.” Third… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Medical Humanities, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015, Uncategorized Tags: hospice, medical school

The Gag Reflex: Representations of Medicine in New Yorker Cartoons

Dec. 19, 2015 by Comic Nurse

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In this entertaining, reflective, and insightful talk from his workshop at the 2105 Comics & Medicine conference, doctor and New Yorker staff cartoonist Ben Schwartz tracks the history of doctors, medicine, and health as reflected in the single-panel gag cartoons of the New Yorker Magazine. He also shares reflections from a few fellow New Yorker cartoonists on medicine in comics, and tips for making a gag comic of your own. Keep an eye on your screen, there are over 200 comics in this presentation! If your browser supports Quicktime, you can watch it in the first window below. If it… Read More

Categories: animation, Baltimore 2014, bandes dessinées, Bioethics, Brighton 2013, Call For Papers, Chicago 2011, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Comics Forum, Conference Presenters, drawing, Dundee 2016, Graphic Novels, Health Education, Health Humanities, journal, London 2010, medical blog, Medical Humanities, medical politics, NGOs, papers, Picture Books, Podcast, Podcasts, Research, Riverside 2015, symposia, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized, Webcomics Tags: Ben Schwartz, The New Yorker

Dana Walrath: Cultural Spaces, Comics, and Contested Memories

Dec. 4, 2015 by Comic Nurse

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This week on the Graphic Medicine Podcast: author, artist, and anthropologist Dana Walrath. Segment 1: Graphic Medicine News  This week the Annals of Internal Medicine posted a wonderful new comic by Sharon Rosensweig and Aaron Freeman called “The Last Ride of Mo Rosensweig” which I highly recommend. Segment 2: Dana Walrath and Aliceheimer’s Dana Walrath is a medical anthropologist, author, and artist. Her first book, Aliceheimer’s, will be published in the US by Penn State University Press. In this talk, titled “Cultural Spaces, Comics, and Contested Memories” Dana desrcibes the ways medical anthropology and comic helped her to shape a new… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015, Uncategorized Tags: Alzheimer's, medical anthropology

Carol Tyler: Bringing It All Back Home

Nov. 25, 2015 by Comic Nurse

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In this week’s Graphic Medicine Podcast, Carol Tyler’s keynote address from the Graphic Medicine 2015 conference in Riverside, California. The talk is titled, “Bringing It All Back Home.” With this being the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., I thought it would be a great tie-in to post Carol’s talk in conjunction with the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Here’s a video about that project from StoryCorps: Carol Tyler’s monumental book, Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father was released this week. The process which led to the creation of this book was a monumental act of intense listening, intense caregiving,… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015, Uncategorized Tags: cancer, caregiving, listening, PTSD, stroke, veterans

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